If you are still relying on hollowpoints to protect yourself, you are in grave danger.

I’ve been a firearms enthusiast for 25 years. I’ve shot thousands of rounds of hollowpoint and seen professional demonstration after professional demonstration of hollowpoints in various calibers and soft and hard targets. These demonstrations consistently show that hollowpoints fail to expand the majority of the time and even when they do, they don’t penetrate very far (~6-12 inches). <br><br>What you see on youtube of bullets dumping all their mass into the first 2 inches of a gel block are terrible PR for the hollowpoint industry and not representative of real-life behavior. I don’t know what the youtube channels are doing wrong but what they show is not representative of what I’ve seen in real life or what I’ve seen with professional third-party demonstrations. <br><br>The vast majority of the time, your hollowpoint will behave exactly like a FMJ. It will not expand at all. The Facebook vids of cops shooting bad guys in the leg and them bleeding out are the exception, not the rule. In most cases, your hollowpoint will not expand at all and will over-penetrate. It’s essentially a FMJ and it will behave exactly like one.<br><br>If you want to rely on your handgun to expand and create a large wound cavity to bleed out your assailant, you are in grave danger. You are relying on what amounts to a fantasy. You will not be able to bleed them out with a handgun. They will stay standing and perfectly fine until they bleed out several minutes or hours later, if your shot is even that good.<br><br>If you want to stop the threat, you need to aim for their nervous system. You need to hit their brain or their spine. There is no relying on “wound channel” when it comes to a handgun, that’s again a fantasy. It is unreliable. The only reliable way to instantly stop the threat of an assailant is to hit their nervous system. And even then, they could have enough time to squeeze the trigger once or twice if they already have the gun pointed at you. Do you think you can ride out getting shot once or twice? Unless you have a submachine gun or a shotgun, you have to aim for the brain or spine. It’s a terrible standard, but it is what it is.<br><br>So, if you are relying on hollowpoint to expand and create a massive wound channel, and you aim for the body, you are in grave danger because you are relying on a myth.